Monthly Archive February 2013

Illusions Mixed Media; plaster mask, watercolor, fairy dust & altered book sculpture
By Molly Blythe Doerner
February 20, 2013
I have said it every quarter since I have been attending Southwestern College, that I have been inspired and moved at the core of my being. This is my third quarter…Continue reading

Shadow Boxes created in my section of Current Trends in Art Therapy, Winter 2013.
After exploring a population that students have a form of resistance to working with (from lack of information to disinterest, to strong opposition) through a research and reflection paper, they were asked to look at how their resistance is a…Continue reading

by Amy Hautman Bates
Last night I brought my dream into a lucid state where I was skating as a child. In our Minnesota winters my dad would flood the backyard with a hose for several days and create a huge skating rink for the season. It was cold. Way too cold– but looking…Continue reading

The new Heartlink (SWC’s newsletter) is out! There are many pieces of great interest, but the lead article tracks the expansion, enhancement and beautification of Southwestern College’s campus. We started with the decision in 2009 to build the Art Therapy building. That decision set up on a path that has is driving us into our…Continue reading

Speaking the Language of the Digital Natives
OK, here is something the world needs.
Authentic, committed, serious, spirited, informed, good-humored, action-backed, energetic and collaborative conversations and team-building around "Social Media and Higher Education."
Oh, sure there are Linked In and Facebook groups that kind of look like they could be having these conversations,…Continue reading

MAKE A MANDALA FOR OUR NEW ART SPACE!
Have you noticed the new framed mandalas decorating the hallways that lead to the upstairs classroom in the Administration Building? Check them out! The art in this hallway welcomes prospective students on campus tours and uplifts the classrooms and faculty offices nearby. Last month we had…Continue reading

I am blessed to have amazing teachers in this lifetime – from India, from South America, from the reservations of our own Turtle Island.
My favorite teachers are the everyday people who teach just by being who they are.
I think of Ronnie, our Navaho guide for our vision quests in Canyon de Chelly. …Continue reading

Pachamama is my teacher........... by Candy Jones, 2nd year student at Southwestern College
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle." Wendell Berry from a timbered chore take me to Bethlehem
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Musings on the scarcity of men in the helping professions....It is no news to anybody—there are not a lot of men at Southwestern College. We are all aware of what has been called the “feminization” of psychology and the helping professions in recent years. (You can Google that one and stay busy for weeks, I…Continue reading

by Amy Hautman Bates
Peacemaker, Sequoyah Trueblood visited SWC last week and referred to the need for women to moderate the aggressive nature of men. Honoring the feminine virtues of creating life, peace, sensitivity to Nature and the needs of others is the most obvious way to move toward a more sane…Continue reading

ON BEING HUMAN at Southwestern College, Santa Fe
- Allegra Borghese
I sit in client-mode, staring at myself down a long, dark tunnel. I see a flicker of myself that has been mischievously hiding for a long time. The uncanny feeling that emerges is a potent reality check slicing through who I think…Continue reading

Changing Form to Change Spirit: Losing Weight as a Transformational JourneySo….there is a line of thinking that holds that we should feel good about ourselves, no matter what. Being in shape or not, having advanced degrees or not, whether we are handsome or not, beautiful or not, full plumaged or bald, whether we drink more…Continue reading